I am always inspired by lyrics and quotes, especially profound and slightly poetic ones that make you think. Since my mindset has been dominated by travel and trip planning for the past several months, I have come across some fantastic quotes that inspire me. These are some of my all-time favorite:

“Not all who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien

“A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” — Lao Tzu

“I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag

“A ship is safe in the harbor, but that’s not what ships are built for.” – Gael Attal

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who’ll decide where to go…” ― Dr. Seuss

“He who is outside his door already has the hardest part of his journey behind him.” (Dutch proverb)

“Travel makes one modest; you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustave Flaubert

“Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.” — Henry David Thoreau

“If you come to a fork in the road, take it.” – Yogi Berra

“No matter where you go, there you are.” – Anonymous

“Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.” – Dr. Maya Angelou

“World, here I come!” – Jon Bon Jovi

“Oh, the places you’ll go!” – Dr. Seuss

“The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.” – St. Augustine

“I shall be telling this with a sigh somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” — Robert Frost